EditorialCharles V, German Emperor, grants coinage to Augsburg, Silver Medal. Obverse: coat of arms under year inside circumscription. Reverse: crowned, double-headed eagle with shield in front of chest within inscription, Augsburg, Charles V of Habsburg (Germa...
Editorialpiece d'essai', beaten according to the Salneuve procedure with the coin presses manufactured in Paris, intended for the coinage of the kingdom of Holland, Front: inscription. Reverse: inscription, lace, Salneuve, anonymous, Utrecht, 24-Apr-1808, bronz...
EditorialGold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator, Hellenistic, 221?204 B.C., Greek, Ptolemaic, Gold, 1 1/16 in., 0oz. (2.7 cm, 27.77g), Coins, head of Ptolemy III, Euergetes/double cornucopiae, minted in Alexandria, Egypt. Gold and silver were the primary raw ...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Artaxerxes III, Achaemenid Persian Empire, Memphis, 343 BCE. Persian king Artaxerxes III (reigned 358-338 BCE) marched on Egypt to quell a rebellion. While in the country, he issued a large series of silver imitations of Athenian ...
EditorialGold jug from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC. Fine gold jug with a lion-headed handle and ridged decoration. The jug is part of the Oxus treasure, the most important collection of silver and gold to have survived from the Ach...
EditorialGold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand V, King of Castile, and Isabella, Queen, around 1500. The conquistadors looted the gold treasures of the native populations of the Americas and exported much of it to Europe. This first New World treasure was reflected in...
EditorialGold solidus of Theodebert I, minted in the kingdom of Metz, eastern France. Frankish, 534-548 CE. After the fall of Rome, a number of " barbarian" kingdoms emerged in the West. Their coinage consisted of large gold coins called " solidi...
EditorialGold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand V, King of Castile, and Isabella, Queen, around 1500. The conquistadors looted the gold treasures of the native populations of the Americas and exported much of it to Europe. This first New World treasure was reflected in...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Mithridates I., Parthian, from Iran, 171-138 BCE. It is not clear when Parthian coinage started, but by the end of the second BCE coins were produced throughout the Parthian empire, imitating the designs of the Seleucid rulers of ...
EditorialEngraved bronze monetary coin (matrix) in an iron block, used for the coinage of gold staters found at Avenches, Vaud, Switzerland Diameter about 4.5 cm.
EditorialBronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 B.C.?A.D. 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.41 cm), Bronzes, The ram had been used as the symbol on the coinage of the kings of Salamis in the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. But it al...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Artaxerxes III, Achaemenid Persian Empire, Memphis, 343 BCE. Persian king Artaxerxes III (reigned 358-338 BCE) marched on Egypt to quell a rebellion. While in the country, he issued a large series of silver imitations of Athenian ...
EditorialIcon with Christ Pantokrator, ca. 1350 or later, Made in probably Greece, Byzantine, Steatite, green, Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 3/4 in. (6.7 x 6.7 x 1.9 cm), Steatites, The inscription identifies the image as Christ Antiphonetes, an icon type used by th...
EditorialFranc ? Cheval of John the Good, ca. 1350?64, Made in Poitiers, France, French, Gold, Overall: 1 1/8 x 1/16 in. (2.9 x 0.1 cm), Coins, The franc ? cheval represents the restoration of sound coinage after the treaty of Br?tigny between France and Englan...
EditorialUnited States Ten-dollar Gold Piece, 1906?7, gold coin 1910, American, Gold, Diam. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm), Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848?1907 Cornish, New Hampshire), Having proclaimed the coinage produced by the United States Mint uninspi...
EditorialCoin, dated A.H. 1031/A.D. 1621?22, Made in India, Agra, Gold, Diam. 13/16 in. (2.1 cm), Coins, Bearing signs of the zodiac, the coins conceived of and issued by Emperor Jahangir were a development of earlier Mughal coinage, which included religious ca...
EditorialBronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 B.C.?A.D. 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.41 cm), Bronzes, The ram had been used as the symbol on the coinage of the kings of Salamis in the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. But it al...
EditorialGold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator, Hellenistic, 221?204 B.C., Greek, Ptolemaic, Gold, 1 1/16 in., 0oz. (2.7 cm, 27.77g), Coins, head of Ptolemy III, Euergetes/double cornucopiae, minted in Alexandria, Egypt. Gold and silver were the primary raw ...
EditorialHalf sovereign of Edward VI, 1549/50, British, Gold, Diameter: 28 mm, Coins, The supplies of bullion brought to Europe from the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries caused inflation, and in response new coinage was issued with a wider r...
EditorialCoin, dated A.H. 1027/ A.D. 1618, Attributed to India, Silver, D. 1/8 in. (0.2 cm), Coins, Bearing signs of the zodiac, the coins conceived of and issued by Emperor Jahangir were a development of earlier Mughal coinage, which included religious calligr...
EditorialPlate coinage equipment and copying machines. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.
EditorialKing Charles I holding sword and olive branch, Triple Unite (English coin). The Triple Unite was the highest English denomination to be produced in the era of the hammered coinage. It was only produced during the English Civil War, at King Charles I's ...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Mithridates I., Parthian, from Iran, 171-138 BCE. It is not clear when Parthian coinage started, but by the end of the second BCE coins were produced throughout the Parthian empire, imitating the designs of the Seleucid rulers of ...
EditorialEngraved bronze monetary coin (matrix) in an iron block, used for the coinage of gold staters found at Avenches, Vaud, Switzerland Diameter about 4.5 cm.
EditorialGold jug from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC. Fine gold jug with a lion-headed handle and ridged decoration. The jug is part of the Oxus treasure, the most important collection of silver and gold to have survived from the Ach...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Artaxerxes III, Achaemenid Persian Empire, Memphis, 343 BCE. Persian king Artaxerxes III (reigned 358-338 BCE) marched on Egypt to quell a rebellion. While in the country, he issued a large series of silver imitations of Athenian ...